CEO of CryptoPunks — hall of fame
The “CEO of CryptoPunks” is an NFT that’s always for sale on cigtoken.eth.limo
It can be purchased by anybody using the contract’s native currency, “Cigarettes” (CIG).
Whoever buys it can nominate a CryptoPunk to be a CEO, and set a graffiti message. Here is a log of the CEO’s.
Punk #5577, was the first ever punk to hold the CEO title.
The punk was owned by @straybits1 on Twitter
at the time. Message: “As CEO I declare Dec 22 Punk Day”
Paid: 50,000 $CIG
Date: Dec-22–2021 09:57:55 AM +UTC
Punk #835, was the 2nd punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: @azuma_bitcoin on Twitter
Message: “@azuma_bitcoin“
Paid: 1,000,000 $CIG Date: Dec-22–2021 08:01:36 PM +UTC
Punk #2042, was the 3rd punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: @cyounessi1 on Twitter
Message: “First punks token” Paid: 3,000,000 $CIG Date: Dec-27–2021 03:57:49 PM +UTC
Punk #6686, was the 4th punk to hold the CEO title.
(and also the 1st punk of the new contract, since The Migration)
Owned by: @DolAtoR on Twitter
Message: “Join the Factory! → PunksCEO” Paid: 0.000001 $CIG Date: Feb-11–2022 01:54:43 PM +UTC
Punk #3934, is the 5th punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: @cryptopunkart on Twitter
Message: “ART is Utility Stooopid…” Paid: 1,000,000 $CIG Date: May-05–2022 01:05:14 AM +UTC
Punk #2317, is the 6th punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: unknown?
Message: “Even BURNED, Punks still Rule” Paid: 3,000,000 $CIG Date: Jul-31–2022 11:57:54 PM +UTC
Address: 0x1469562bbd2ec530018811750D7CF49c34C3032E
Notes: Ruled until Nov-13–2022 01:42:59 PM +UTC, defaulting on their tax obligations. The first punk to increase the issuance to a maximum of 1000 per block, and held it there for the duration of their reign. Set the take-over price to 20 million Cigarettes on August 24th, paying tax of 20k Cigarettes daily. This CEO did not engage with the community and kept silent through their term. The punk they used was also a burned punked, the address controlling the CEO title did not actually own this punk.
Punk #9527, is the 7th punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: maxwellx.eth (@punk9527 on Twitter)
Message: “In Punks We Trust.”
Paid: 14,000,000 $CIG
Date: Nov-15–2022 06:40:47 AM +UTC
Address: 0x1469562bbd2ec530018811750D7CF49c34C3032E
Notes: The first punk with a Cigarette trait to become the CEO! Set the take-over price to 10 million CIG. Drafted the initial terms of the CryptoPunks constitution
Punk #7407, is the 8th punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: Phantom Scribbs (@phantom_scribbs on Twitter)
Message: “Privacy is necessary…”
Paid: 1,000,000 $CIG
Date: Dec-03–2022 05:38:23 PM +UTC
Address: 0x70399b85054dd1d94f2264aFc8704a3ee308ABAf
Notes: The first punk with a beanie to become the CEO. Initial take-over price set to 2 million CIG.
Punk #3138, is the 9th punk to hold the CEO title.
Owned by: CryptoPunks CE (@cryptopunks_ce on Twitter)
Message: “https://cryptopunks.eth.limo”
Paid: 2,000,000 $CIG
Date: Dec-10–2022 03:08:11 AM +UTC
Address: cryptopunks.eth
Notes: Set the take-over price to 5 mil CIG, and prepaid 6,270,000 CIG in taxes. Made the following announcment on Twitter https://twitter.com/cryptopunks_ce/status/1601418716562206720?cxt=HHwWgMDRldH1sLksAAAA
Punk #8716, is the 10th punk to hold the CEO title
Owned by: The CEO title was bought and held by “godsavethegoat” on Twitter, who nominated the punk since he doesn’t own a punk. The punk’s owner is tycoon.eth
Message: “LET PUNK LEAD”
Paid: 5,000,000 $CIG
Date: Feb-01–2023 11:54:59 AM +UTC
Address: godsavethegoat.eth
Notes: During his reign, godsavedagoat cleaned up and re-organized the Discord server and bought it back to life. He never missed a gm in the morning. The most important achivment was that he took the Factory under controll and bought the issuance rate down to 42 CIG per block.